Mark Heese (born August 15, 1969) is a

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

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beach volleyball Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two or more players on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of the ...

player. Born in

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, Ontario, Heese began playing beach volleyball at the age of 19 at the Balmy Beach Club in Toronto, and is a graduate of

McMaster University McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main McMaster campus is on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, adjacent to the Royal Botanical Ga ...

where he played university volleyball for the Marauders for four seasons from 1988 to 1992. Partnered with John Child, Heese is a three-time Olympian – bronze medal in Atlanta (1996), 5th in Sydney (2000) and 5th in Athens (2004). He also is a ten-time Canadian National champion winning with John Child (7), Rich Van Huzien (1) and Ahren Cadieux (2). July 7, 1996 in Berlin, Germany, Heese along with partner John Child won their first FIVB international Open tournament by defeating Para and Marques of Brasil

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Heese and partner Ahren Cadieux's website
1969 births Living people Canadian men's beach volleyball players Beach volleyball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Beach volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Beach volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Canada Olympic beach volleyball players of Canada Olympic medalists in beach volleyball McMaster University alumni McMaster Marauders volleyball players Volleyball players from Toronto Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics {{Canada-volleyball-bio-stub